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well i did understand a bit but im kind of a computer idiot so wahts a php? tks for your help sarge, Mahmoud your idea sounds kool but i use internet explorer so do you know if there is that feature on that?

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well i could use opera but the problem is it takes forever to start on my computer while internet explorer starts imediatly and i guess it would be a problem if it keeps on refreshing but yahoo mail one second the mail isn't there next second it is

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No. It takes coding. vB the forum does not have its forum software coded to implement AJAX. Most forums dont. You have to specifically code for it. Even then it still might not work with the Forum software itself.

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If you're going through hell, keep going

Compared to old fashioned and far less powerful applications, they transfer tremendous amounts of data, and you will never want to use any AJAX based applications if you have to pay for the amount of data transferred between the browser and the web server.

Mostly Harmless

Communications between client and server can be one of two ways:
1) Polling
2) Real-time

Polling is the traditional method. Your browser (when you hit refresh) communicates with the server and checks if there is an update. Each time this incurs a heavy resource penalty on the server. AJAX has it set to auto-poll each couple of seconds == really bad idea for most people.

Real-time communication is a new (well, not really, but it's only now beginning to go mainstream) method where the server tells the client "Hey, you, I have a message for you - go check!". But it cannot be implemented in web-browsers because they are built around the concept of polling.

The same for your mail client: every 5-30 minutes it checks with the server to see if a new message is there. If it were done in AJAX, it would be every 5-30 seconds and prohibitively expensive for most. But mail clients can be written in XMPP (real-time protocol) to use the second method and save crazy cash.

Bottom line: hit the refresh button yourself

Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, NeoSmart Technologies

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